According to 1M AI News, the Alibaba DAMO Academy team announced a partnership with the AI inference infrastructure platform Fireworks AI, integrating their flagship model Qwen3.6-Plus with the Fireworks AI platform to provide inference and fine-tuning services to developers in the United States and globally.
Qwen3.6-Plus is the recent flagship large model released by DAMO Academy, focusing on Agent programming capability, supporting a 1 million token context window and up to 65,536 token output, utilizing a built-in chain-like inference architecture with native function call support. Fireworks AI, founded by former Meta PyTorch team members, specializes in high-performance model inference services. DAMO Academy stated that this collaboration will leverage Fireworks AI's optimized inference technology stack to provide Qwen3.6-Plus with high-performance, cost-effective inference services. The specific launch date and pricing have not been announced yet.
